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FCC Volunteers:
At the “Fridays at the Residence” events
Our colleague, Olga Torres Barrado was
present at the Fridays at the Residence cul-
tural cycle on 10 May 2013.
The conference, entitled “La copla: poesía
popular” gave Olga the opportunity of brin-
ging the audience closer to the most popu-
lar songs and the main interpreters.
On the following Friday, 17 May, Juan
Luis Castillo Castilla, director of one of the
Aqualia Zones, was the speaker, giving a
conference on “Tarraco Scipionum Opus:
Escipión, the commitment with Rome”, in
which he described to the members of the
audience the foundation of the current city
of Tarragona by the Romans.
A week later, on 24 May, the volunteers tra-
velled from Tarragona to the Principality of
Asturias, thanks to Avelino Acero, the ge-
neral manager of FCC Corporate Functions
and Special Projects, and the singer from
Asturias, Pipo Prendes.
Avelino Acero acted as a tour guide, sha-
ring his deep knowledge on the cultural,
landscape, gastronomic, and architectural
heritage of Asturias by showing a slide pre-
sentation.
http://portaldelvoluntariado.fcc.es/volun-
tariado/Paginas/default.aspx
After the virtual visit to Asturias, Pipo Pren-
des took over and, accompanied by the
guitarist Fernando Fernández sang a se-
lection of songs from his new record, “Un
paso más”.
The last conference in May was by our co-
lleague Maribel Castilló Villegas who spoke
about “The wonderful world of flowers”,
and made a presentation in which she des-
cribed the peculiarities of vanilla, coffee,
cocoa, tea, and violet flowers and the long
floral art tradition of Spanish culture.
La Nostra Casa de Fort Pienc
At the La Nostra Casa de Fort Pienc resi-
dence in Barcelona, FCC Volunteers orga-
nised an event on 22 May featuring Javier
López-Galiacho who made a presentation
on the life of the Cuban singer Antonio Ma-
chín.
In June, first conferences at the Fridays at
the Residence cycle was by Concha Rubio
de Miguel, who transformed the day centre
at the Nuestra Casa Residence into a tea
parlour.
Tea is an infusion made with the leaves and
sprouts of the tea plant “Camellia sinensis”.
After water, tea is the most widely consu-
med beverage in the world.
The two closing events in June were on bu-
llfighting. The first one, on 21 June, was a
presentation by Juan Carlos Montejano, the
manager of FCC Procurement.
In his speech on “The truth in bullfighting”,
Juan Carlos, who also used images, explai-
ned to the audience the passion and the
fact that it has served as a source of inspira-
tion for many famous painters, writers, and
poets, such as Goya, Picasso, Dalí, Sorolla,
Zuloaga, Miró, Barceló, Miguel Hernández,
Alberti, Cernuda, Gerardo Diego, Pérez de
Ayala, Camilo José Cela, Ortega y Gasset,
Sabater, Arrabal and Lorca.
The IV cycle of these Fridays at the Resi-
dence cycle ended on 28 June with a pre-
sentation by Mari Carmen Camacho and
Silvia Camacho who raise bulls at their “La
Quinta” ranch in Medina Sidonia (Cadiz).
Concha Rubio de Miguel